X-ray view of the Galactic Centre
EU–(ENEWSPF)–20 August 2015. This new image of powerful remnants of dead stars and their mighty action on the surrounding gas from ESA’s XMM-Newton X-ray observatory reveals some of the most intense processes taking place at the centre of our galaxy, the Milky Way.
The bright, point-like sources that stand out across the image trace binary stellar systems in which one of the stars has reached the end of its…
